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Published on May 24, 2019 by LEUT Tony White (author and photographer)

Sydney based participants from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, United States Navy and the Royal Navy, during Exercise BELL BUOY 19.

More than 60 Maritime Trade Operations (MTO) Officers from ten navies have wrapped up one of their largest annual Bell Buoy exercises last week with a simulations of conflict between two countries in the Tasman Sea, piracy and the closure of Port Botany due to an underwater improvised explosive device.

Commanding Officer HMAS Toowoomba, Commander Mitchell Livingstone, CSC, RAN, and distinguished guests on the flight deck of HMAS Toowoomba on the completion of a luncheon meeting in Chennai, India.

Adhering to an old Navy tradition of warships visiting foreign ports engaging with local authorities and dignitaries, the Commanding Officer of HMAS Toowoomba hosted a luncheon during the ship’s visit to Chennai, India.

Makenzie, Max and Madelin wait for dad, Leading Seaman Electronics Technician Mathew Gilgen, to come off the ship as HMAS Sirius returns home to Fleet Base West after departing in August last year.

The 8th of May would have had a big circle around it on the calendars of many families of HMAS Sirius’ ship’s company, as that was the day the ship returned to her homeport at Fleet Base West after nine months away.

Navy’s people are being challenged to sharpen their mental edge and fighting mindset using the Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Michael Noonan’s latest Professional Resource List.

In 1889, British Lieutenant General William F Butler wrote “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”

The Seamanship School at the Royal Australian Navy’s Boatswains Faculty at HMAS Cerberus has two new simulators that will help ensure new boat coxswains go to sea much better prepared to hit the water at speed.

HMAS Toowoomba boarding party members on the port waist as they prepare to begin a boarding party exercise for their Unit Readiness Evaluation.

The ship’s company of HMAS Toowoomba has been stretched and tested over the past six weeks as the warship was put through a Work-Up and Unit Readiness Evaluation (URE) in the West Australian Exercise Area.

Published on May 21, 2019 by CPL Carla Armenti (author and photographer)

Following a parade held to mark the 40th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, members of the Egyptian and Israeli delegation planted an olive tree as a symbol of peace at the commemoration site of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) Headquarters at South Camp in Sharm El Sheikh.

Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have marked the 40th anniversary of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt on the Sinai Peninsula.